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Helper Ibase-2 or base-10 system when reporting semantic model sizes on Power BI Service?
Hi,
Does Power BI Service use base-2 or base-10 system for reporting dataset (semantic model) sizes?
Tell your stakeholders that is a meaningless KPI. Instead, learn about Fabric pricing for storage.
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- lbendlin
Super User
the compression algorithms are bit based. but a rather good approximation is to assume that everything behind the scenes is
turtlestext all the way down.
Trish_RyeHi,
I am not sure I understand your answer... Maybe I should have been more precise.
I am extracting info on unused semantic models' size using this api:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/admin/groups-get-unused-artifacts-as-adminSince data is in MB, I would like to convert them into GB in my KPIs. I asumed that since this is a storage measurement, I should do it like this:
size in GB = Size in MB / 1024
But you are saying it's bits (not bytes as above) which would be strange I think, as it's mostly used for network speed...- lbendlin
Ah, you want to know if it is counting in GiB or in GB. As I said - it doesn't matter. The compression has a much bigger impact.